Kim Strassel and the WSJ on the Lost IRS Emails — Earlier this week Wall Street Journal columnist Kim Strassel won a much deserved Bradley Award for her work in investigative journalism. It's at times like this, in which revelations about evidence destruction at the Internal Revenue Service …

Stephanie Kwolek, Kevlar Inventor, Dies at 90 — DOVER, Del. (AP) — Police Lt. David Spicer took four .45-caliber slugs to the chest and arms at point-blank range and lived to tell about it. Like thousands of other police officers and soldiers shot in the line of duty …

Four western Iraqi towns fall to advancing ISIS militants — Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) — A strategic border crossing and three other towns in western Iraq fell Saturday to the control of ISIS militants, a senior Iraqi security official said. — In addition to their offensives in northern Iraq …

McCarthy: Blame Senate, not White House — Newly elected House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Sunday the Senate, rather than President Barack Obama, is to blame for gridlock in Washington. — “I believe you can work with anybody,” the California Republican said on “Fox News Sunday …

We need comprehensive immigration reform now — This city is abuzz over the politics of immigration, with excited, occasionally valid speculation swirling about Eric Cantor, calendars, last-minute deals, and the like. — That's what Washington does. That's OK.

How Davis wins by losing — Democrats are publicly rooting for Wendy Davis to turn Texas blue. — But privately, many of her supporters are resigned to her losing. And, already, some political operatives are pondering how she can stay politically relevant beyond November.

Lessons for Climate Change in the 2008 Recession — THERE is a time for weighing evidence and a time for acting. And if there's one thing I've learned throughout my work in finance, government and conservation, it is to act before problems become too big to manage.

Stopping a lawless president — What philosopher Harvey Mansfield calls “taming the prince” — making executive power compatible with democracy's abhorrence of arbitrary power — has been a perennial problem of modern politics. It is now more urgent in the United States than at any time since the Founders …

Central Park Five settlement is a ‘disgrace’ — An unacceptable amount of time and money has been spent on the infamous case, and it's ridiculous for it to be settled at a cost of $40 million to taxpayers, Trump says. — My opinion on the settlement of the Central Park Jogger case is that it's a disgrace.

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